Taken

This is easily one of the best thriller/action/vengeance films I have seen in a long time. It is swift, brutal, and satisfying.

It’s a simple film, with a simple story, that is well played out. It is about a father (Liam Neeson) and his fight to get his kidnapped daughter (Maggie Grace) back. They don’t get too much into the back story but what they do provide is enough for you to feel and root for the main characters. You really want him to find his daughter and you want him to live.

Neeson carries this whole film almost by himself. The secondary characters are really secondary in this movie. They are there but they really could have been anyone. The focus is on his character Bryan Mills and he does a great job. He is intense, focused, skilled and angry. He has an objective and it will be reached.

It isn’t a long movie with a running time of 91 minutes but so much happens that it feels longer without wearing you out. The character intro is only 15 maybe 20 minutes and then the next hour is non stop.They don’t do any ridiculous stunts. No flipping cars, no gravity defying flips, no breaking into top secret government facilities to take over a satellite. Everything that he does seems some how plausible. The fight scenes aren’t drawn out. He kicks someone in the face they go down and that is that. It is not boring and it brings a realism to the film. He talks to people. He knows his own boundaries. And it just works.

See it.

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